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Started by hb88banzai, Feb 11, 2013, 10:33 pm

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hb88banzai

Feb 11, 2013, 10:33 pm Last Edit: Feb 11, 2013, 10:44 pm by hb88banzai
The Box on the Great North Road/Pricklers Hill, just north of Lyonsdown Road in New Barnet - S55

Here is a photo from the late 1950s --

Great_North_Road-New_Barnet-S55-(Late50s).jpg

A blowup of the Box --

Great_North_Road-New_Barnet-S55-(Late50s)-Blowup.JPG

That apartment block in the background (The Coppice) is still there (and was there in the 1945 Google Earth view as well). By aligning probable lines of sight it appears the Met List is incorrect on the location of the Box. It specifies 10 yards north of Lyonsdown, but that would put it in front of a little open commons area on the corner here --

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The problem is, even the 1945 Google Earth view shows this area as being open, without trees or hedge. The building wouldn't line up either. To get to a point where it will line up you have to go another 30 yards or so north, to about here --

Great_North_Road-New_Barnet-S55-ApproxBoxSiteStreetview.JPG

Center of view next to the hedge line, about in line with the southern end of the central portion of the apartment block (per Google Earth view).

Approximate Box Site Street View URL:  http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Lyonsdown+Road,+New+Barnet&hl=en&ll=51.641739,-0.181296&spn=0.002024,0.010611&sll=51.573229,-0.146942&sspn=0.286355,0.679779&hnear=Lyonsdown+Rd,+New+Barnet,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=17&layer=c&cbll=51.641738,-0.181293&panoid=7SkVzLKDLqeGDis4gMcvzQ&cbp=12,18.71,,0,2.33

As you can see, the screen of trees has grown to almost impenetrable proportions in the intervening years. Nonetheless, you can peek through here and there to see details of the building that leave no doubt that this is the same place as in the 1950s photo --

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Dalekoracle

You know, thats one of my all time favourite box pics.
Its just so perfect (and cropped makes for the most wonderful facebook header!) and I'm pleased that its finally been pinned down. Absolutely love that photo to bits.

petewilson

Well done banzai....a great photo and another "unknown" to tick off the list!
I've found another of a box that we already have several photos of.... that I'll post later (but only a "spot the Police Box" type..nowhere near to this scale!)

Pete